When police go shopping

Policing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 665-690

  Ayling, Julie ^a   Grabosky, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Law enforcement; Outsourcing; Police; Procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751018278     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639510610711592     Document Type: Article

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